Sources in US History Online Slavery in America

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Sources in US History Online Slavery in America
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What are Primary Sources why are they
important to Public Libraries?

• What are primary sources?
• Published/Created contemporary with event
• Books/Monographs, Newspapers, Government Reports,
  Unpublished Manuscripts Private papers of key
  individuals
• Sermons, speeches and public proclamations
• Provides the evidence to history and culture
• History in the First Person as viewed by those
  who lived it
• Illuminates under represented populations, themes
  and events
• Captures period, place, community and mindset
• The un-interpreted past history the official
  record, left out
• A private view of history tells how people
  feel, shows multiple points of view
• Primary Sources Perfect for Publics
• Increases access to rare, restricted materials in
  user friendly package
• Allows users to follow their interests
• Family, Local and Genre History
• Treasure trove for subject matter enthusiasts
• Background material for Reading or Movie
  discussion groups
• Ideal for Homework/Curriculum development
• Increased requirement for research paper AP/IB
  high schools

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Sources in U.S. History Online

• Available Now!
• Slavery in America
• Civil War in America
• American Revolution
• Coming Soon!
• Womens Fight for the Vote Dec 08
• Immigration in America Dec 08

These History Topics are current now!
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What is Sources in U.S. History Online?

• A new approach to serving patrons high interest
  areas
• Topically focused, digital primary source
  collections
• Designed for public library patrons,
• Students and faculty in high school, community
  college, and university
• For subject matter experts without access to
  scholarly resources
• Devoted to topics in American Studies
• History, Religion, Literature, Patriotism,
  Battles, Civil Rights, Family/Place
• Affordable, user-friendly, visually attractive
• Makes Gales most prestigious assets accessible
  to broader audience
• Enhances value of librarys reference and
  periodical investments
• Each contains approx 75,000-100,000 pages from
  500 works
• Adapted to make research easy for
  non-researchers
• Thematic outlines
• Contextual Essays
• Subject Indexing
• Pre-Configured Searches

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Full power but right-sized for your library

• Core features
• Hit Term highlighting
• Scale pages
• Bookmarks
• E Table of Contents
• Print Email
• Usage Report
• Help Screens

• Full text Search
• Basic Search
• Advanced Search
• Proximity Search
• Fuzzy Search
• Browse
• Authors
• Titles
• Subjects

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Improved User Interface

• Less like work, more like play! feels like a web
  site vs. database
• Easy navigation between documents and the
  information related to that document
• Several ways to access documents through the key
  subjects, through browse, or through traditional
  searches
• Excellent feedback from high school and
  undergraduate instructors students

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Screen split into 3 activity focused areas
Document Pane
Task Pane
Photographs promote instant interest
Navigation Pane
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Enhanced Context Spotlight Essays
Helps teach the research process
From visual to essay .to sample searches
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Enhanced Context

• Table of contents
• Created by leading scholars
• Links to essays
• Essays link to specific documents in collection
• Context enhances
• patrons understanding
• documents relevance
• Usage and usefulness
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Improved Navigation

• Subject indexing helps suggest build
  automatic searches
• Visual Navigation bar brings subject to life

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The Civil War

• More than 500 documents for 90,000 pages
• Sources come from Sabin and other Gale Digital
  archives
• Editor Professor Paul Finkelman, Albany Law
  School
• The Most researched and written-about topic in US
  History
• Monuments and Battlefields in almost every state
• Subject of many recent bestsellers literary
  classics
• Bruce Catton
• Stephen Hyslop
• Steven Ambrose
• Shelby Foote
• Stephen Crane

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Outlines and EssaysCivil War

• I Armies and Combatants
• Conscription
• Law
• Battles
• Armies
• Soldiers
• Black Troops
• Navy and Naval Operations
• II Art of Warfare
• Tactics and Military Training
• Military Technology
• III Leadership
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
• Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
• George B. McClellan (1826-1885)
• Philip Sheridan (1831-1888)
• George B. McClellan (1826-1885)
• William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891
• Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)

• IV-Beyond the Battlefield
• Prisoners and Jailed Civilians
• Medical
• Spies
• Sanitary Commission
• Religion
• Soldiers Obituaries
• V Government and Foreign Policy
• Law
• Foreign Relations
• British View of the War
• Secession
• Emancipation
• V - Home Front
• Election of 1860
• Election of 1864
• Civilian Life
• Sermons of the War
• VII - Literary Genres

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Types of WorksCivil War

• Personal narratives and memoirs
• Pamphlets and political speeches
• Sermons and songs
• Regimental histories and photograph albums
• Legal treatises and children's books.

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Sample SearchesCivil War

• Experience of soldiers at the Battle of
  Gettysburg (1-3 July1863)
• Standard searches
• Search Gettysburg 119 results
• Search killed at Gettysburg 14 results
• Search killed n7 Gettysburg 17 results
• 2) Diplomatic crisis The Trent Affair
• Search Trent affair 18 results
• 3) Leadership Confederate field commander
  Stonewall Jackson
• Search "Stownwall Jackson" 77 results
• Search Stonewall Jackson Manassas 51 results
• Search Stonewall Jackson Chancellorsville 33
  results